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BP's "top kill" operation halted the flow of oil and gas from the stricken Deepwater Horizon rig Thursday, according to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, cited in the Los Angeles Times.

The White House called the report premature and BP would not confirm that the operation had been a success, but indicated that an update on flow rates from the leaking well would be delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey at 10:00am Eastern Time

Allen, who is coordinating the government response to the oil spill, said that engineers had succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP well.

Allen said the engineers had pumped enough drilling fluid to block all oil and gas from the well. The pressure from the well was very low, but persists, he added.

If the risky procedure stops the flow, BP will then inject cement into the well to seal it. The top kill has worked above ground but has never before been tried 5,000 feet beneath the sea. BP pegged its chance of success at 60 to 70 percent.

BP prepares for 'top kill'
"We're doing everything we can to bring it to closure, and actually we're executing this top kill job as efficiently and effectively as we can," BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said.

Fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the coast are fed up with BP's failures to stop the oil that is coating Louisiana's marshes and the wildlife that relies on them. The anger has turned toward President Barack Obama and his administration. Polls show the public is souring on their handling of the catastrophe.

A guest on Scoreboard (Fox) stated that a much bigger spill occured in Saudi A and that a bunch of super tankers soaked the oil up and that there was little damage to the environment. BP screwed this clean up royally.

The Federal Government shares a great deal of blame also. This oil well is in Federal (not state) waters. They get hundreds of billions of dollars off these oil leases and are responsible for inspections and safety violations. If the federal employees had done their job, this spill might not have happened cause there were warning signs. It has been reported that BP gave them gifts, trips, etc which should be illegal and offered them jobs. With this type of cozzieness, these asshole inspectors should be fired. BP also took shortcuts that has been reported by drillers that were on site when it blew.

But they only stopped it because the O commanded them to. They will like the Obedience to the O.

If we could get him to dissapate the oil on the beaches and marshes on his visit to Grand Isle, LA tomorrow, then I would truly believe he is the One. After that, the Magic Negro could go to AZ waving his magic wand and low and behold a fence across the whole state would appear.

If we could get him to dissapate the oil on the beaches and marshes on his visit to Grand Isle, LA tomorrow, then I would truly believe he is the One. After that, the Magic Negro could go to AZ waving his magic wand and low and behold a fence across the whole state would appear.

:D hahahhaaha.

...Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

We all do, but if it does, it sort of begs the question: Why the hell didn't they try this first rather than trying to install steel condoms on the damn thing?

"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)